According to the Air Force’s just-released demographics snapshot that reports data as of June 30, the service has 328,763 active duty airmen, with 65,928 officers and 262,835 enlisted members. The service is still shy of its Fiscal 2010 end strength goal of 332,700 airmen by just over 3,900 personnel. That’s improved since the last snapshot, released in April, which showed it about 6,500 short. Compared to the earlier data, the Air Force gender ratio has not changed; women still comprise about 19.6 percent of the force.
Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd III met with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the Philippines to discuss bolstering defense ties on May 2. The discussion included plans for joint F-35 exercises with Japan and Australia in the coming years.